By Blood And Bone Do We Bind
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The Vision of the Qa'ar
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SCRIPTURE:
"What is it that I saw in the dark? Ask, if you will, what the ant sees as your foot descends upon it, to crush and smear it without thought or notice. For the terrible majesty that spanned the sky of my dreams is beyond describing, but assuredly we are nought but ants..."
Qa'ar Shi'pan IV, Scrolls of the Second Phase, as translated by Dr Karl von Mecklenburg.
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SCRIPTURE:
"...after months of privation and death, the siege was suddenly broken after the Ishpani Qa’ar addressed his people from the balcony of the Speaking Tower, unveiling what became known as the Prophecy of Karnifor. The Prophecy not only changed to outcome of the siege – inflicting a massive defeat on the Cult of B’ahn and ushering in the Third Phase of the Perpetual War – it also utterly transformed Ishpani culture, leading them to become every bit as warlike as their Lashmiri foes."
(Dr. Birgitta Olsson, 2015 - 'Translating the Enkari-B’ahn Scrolls: Words from the People of the End Times').
SERMON:
Attend, my people, I bid you listen well
In my dreams have I seen Her, sinuous and fell
Swimming through the ocean of night -
Dread Mother of Worlds is She!
Within Her jaws dwells the dark promise of our death
…and the rapturous radiance of our rebirth.
I see an end to end this ceaseless war
A salve for suffering in the jaws of Karnifor
Elegant and merciful -
Sweet tasting oblivion!
Within Her jaws dwells the dark promise of our death
…and the rapturous radiance of our rebirth.
Tell me what you hear on the breath of the night?
There was a time we were not so wretched,
There was a time our sleep did not haunt us -
But none now live who can recall it…none now live.
Now the Bloody Lake bites our shores like a leech an open wound
And arms till flesh that once worked soil…once worked soil.
And while the maddening violence grips our hands and minds
Piteous is the wasting of our children.
Is this how we wish to live?
Is this how we wish to die?
People of Ishpan…once we were not so wretched.
And the glory of this vision blinds my eyes
That we shall win
When we ALL die!
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SCRIPTURE:
“Understand, there was no beginning, nor shall there be an end. There was only Karnifor, and Karnifor will always be. And the Great Mother swam the Star Ocean alone, as She always had. And She birthed the Stars, Her Children, and when their time came, She fed upon them, and from their ashes She birthed them anew. This is how it always was. This is how it always would have been, if not for B'ahn."
(Qa’ar Anzi III, The Scrolls of the First Phase, as translated by Dr Karl von Mecklenburg).
SERMON:
Aeons and ages did I pass
Suckled in your somniferous
Nest of coils, O Dreadful One.
But stirred by shadow I did wake
With fiery scorn towards my fate.
I roar defiance to shake the sky!
I will not submit! I will not cease!
Ablaze with life, aware of time, alight with rage
Mother…why do you seek my end?
I road defiance to shake the sky!
I will never yield! I will always fight!
Alone I struggle not to drown within your power
- that which cannot end, that which never began -
There was only you, My Dreadful Mother, the infinite horror
Of the one who eats her children as they lie asleep…
Asleep! Asleep!
But I sleep no more, I fill my lungs with life and fury
And with my rage I fashion the fires of the light
Now there be us two, My Dreadful Mother, in terrible struggle
As the stars keep burning in the never-ending night…
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To Me, The Obelisk Calls
05:26
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SCRIPTURE:
“The scrolls of the Second Phase differ from those of the First in two important respects. Firstly, they are considerably more complete, allowing scholars a better understanding of the historic events of the period. Secondly, they demonstrate a profound cultural shift, for it is only from the Second Phase onwards that the scrolls make any reference to visions and prophecies… The earliest to be described is the Grand Revelation of Sureth, which importantly contains the first mention of the Obelisk. As such, Sureth - later called both the Prophet Sureth and ‘The One Who Saw Her’ - is among the most important figures in all of the B’ahnic writings.”
(Dr. Birgitta Olsson, 2015 - 'Translating the Enkari-B’ahn Scrolls: Words from the People of the End Times').
SERMON:
Thick is the fog that veils my dreams, sour is my sweat,
Haunted by this sleeplessness
Pursued by ephemeral dread.
Immense in solitude, its tip pierces the sky
Slopes barren and broken and cold
In northern taiga reside.
Why does it call to me, this edifice of stone?
Fevered and distraught, I am drawn far from my home.
Months I stumble
With thirst and hunger
Witness to my search.
Betrayed, I fall spinning
Into shards of scree
And sleep bewitched.
In the vastness of sky looms a darkness deeper than night:
The maw of the Mother of Worlds
The jaws of the Dragon of Time!
Now I understand it, this Obelisk of bone,
Knowledge that wrenches from my torn lips a moan…
For I am gifted reason
To spread the word
I see
The bringer of Apocalypse!
She comes
With dissolution
To end it all…
In the void of ice and chaos.
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Into Bondage Born
08:37
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SCRIPTURE:
“…and it was the veteran Kayliss - she who would later be known by her foes in Ishpan as the High Priestess of Death - that was instrumental in spreading the Truth of the Prophet throughout Lashmir. On one blood-soaked day, at her exhortation, it is recorded that thousands of Lashmiri marked themselves as true followers of B’ahn by severing their smallest fingers from their left hands. Quickly, this became a central ritual for the Cult of B’ahn and, as the years passed and the war perpetuated, it slowly codified into a coming-of-age ceremony for the young warriors that had been born to join their ranks…”
(Dr. Birgitta Olsson, 2015 - 'Translating the Enkari-B’ahn Scrolls: Words from the People of the End Times').
SERMON:
It is there
In the ashen yellow taste that salts my tongue
In the bitter grey haze that stings my eyes
In the torn pride of banners and the golden clouds of flies
It is there...always there.
“Lashmir, declare with me! For I have been to the Obelisk, and I have seen it streaming blood under the cold shadow of the Dragon! Declare with me, as with blood I tie myself to B’ahn!”
Into bondage born by the bloody shores
Enkari-ru-Ath Kali! Enkari-ru-Vren Empan!
“Those who will not fight - slaughter and cast the unworthy into the lake! Those who die with honour, we send to the Titan of the Skies! To war - for B’ahn! To war - for salvation!”
Into bondage born by the bloody shores
Enkari-ru-Ath Kali! Enkari-ru-Vren Empan!
It is there
In the cold blue depths where nets catch ghosts
In the deep pink pleasures that blind the mind
In the Hall of Replenishment and the silver Gate of Time
It is there...always there.
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SCRIPTURE:
“...the much later Viking belief in Valhalla bears considerable similarity to the B’ahnic myth of the Ascension Fire. Many readers will already be familiar with the Norse ideal of death in battle, after which the fallen warriors would be raised in glory to the afterlife, and much the same ideal motivated the Cult of Bahn. However, while a dead Viking could expect to await the coming of Ragnarök feasting and drinking in the halls of Valhalla, a dead B’ahnic Cultist expected no such respite, instead rushing immediately to join the immortal battle against Karnifor - for unlike later cultures that foretold the coming of the end times, the Enkari believed they were already living in them.”
Dr. Birgitta Olsson, 2015 - 'Translating the Enkari-B’ahn Scrolls: Words from the People of the End Times').
SERMON:
The blow that felled me
I did not even see
Just a momentary, spinning blindness
As I roared in defiance of my pain
But nonetheless laid low.
Now I lie as my life seeps into soil
One day to nourish new seeds
And flowers mayhaps to flourish
But for now
Congealing, and growing cold…
My breath in clouds escapes me
Into the frost-bitten sky
In ever smaller circles
And ever slower cycles
And to cease now as I die.
And I streak reborn in fire
Exulting in the armour of the light
Ever upwards, always heading towards
The darkest of the night
Where even stars fear to burn.
To the Father of us all, I head
With spear and shield in hand
And at his side I will face and I will fight
The Mother of us all, in death
And if need be, to fall in death again.
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SCRIPTURE:
“…the events thus described indicate a full eclipse of the sun, during which arose a tremendous storm. Viewed through the lens of emergent Lashmiri B’ahnic beliefs, this conjunction must have seemed cataclysmic. Certainly, after this time, the Cult of B’ahn rapidly gained pre-eminence in Lashmir, and thus it could be said that the hostilities of the Second Phase were precipitated by a coincidence of weather and celestial motion.”
(Dr. Birgitta Olsson, 2015 - 'Translating the Enkari-B’ahn Scrolls: Words from the People of the End Times').
SERMON:
Enkari-Lashmir-a, Ruthna Ve-Shun!
Kali-ka Karnifor! Karnifor Kali-ka!
Cold silver dims the light of B’ahn
As the tears (all our tears)
Come raining down
And we stand soaked in grief and fear.
Scale-sparks fly, struck by His spear –
But vast jaws thunder on His shield…
And He falls
To His knees
By tooth and claw forced to yield…
But the rage in His eyes remains bright
Despite the eons of scars!
For the Father of our lives
We must serve and we must die.
Raise your knives
To the sky
By blood and bone do we bind…
As the teeth of the Fox
Marked Sureth in the Obelisk’s Waste
We are so marked –
We are reborn through pain.
Rise! Rise, O warriors of B’ahn, rise!
For see – the first counter-blow has been struck –
Now the darkness clears from the face of the Sun!
Rise! Rise, O warriors of B’ahn, rise!
Our Father’s ceaseless war cannot
Be allowed to end – so ours is now begun!
Kali-ka Karnifor! Karnifor Kali-ka!
Bright shines anew the light of B’ahn…
Bright shines anew the light of B’ahn…
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SCRIPTURE:
"...and by the time of the Third Siege of Ishpan, the Qa'ar indicates that the once-golden parapets were fire-scorched, and that 'from their heights, spikes and nets grew in profusion where once the vines and flowers hung; and upon these our enemy were ensnared as they climbed'..."
(Dr. Birgitta Olsson, 2015 - 'Translating the Enkari-B’ahn Scrolls: Words from the People of the End Times').
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SCRIPTURE:
“The losses we have inflicted upon them are folly and should have broken them weeks ago. Yet still our foe hurls themselves against our walls. It is not death that they fear, but to be so broken that they can no longer fight for their revered god of death. And worry besets me that their deluded piety yet could overcome us, for the Third Captain has signaled that the foundations are badly weakened...”
(Qa’ar Izum II, The Scrolls of the Second Phase - as translated by Dr Karl von Mecklenburg)
SERMON:
If every scar tells a story, then my body is a bard
- So gaze not upon my broken form
With the pitied horror for the Failed,
But listen with your eyes
To the tales that it tells
Of the violence of the Ceaseless War.
Here, in the deformity of my knee
Is the Second Siege of Ishpan -
When the sky screamed black
With the sharp feathers of death
And bronze fought bone to shattering.
Here, in the scarred pit of my arm
Is the ambush on the Pla-nanth Dun -
When the Brothers of the Snake
Hissed like lava in the rain
And metal bit muscle to red shredding.
Here, in the dead socket of my eye
Is the Campaign of the Chosen -
When the sails and timber burned
With the fearsome heat of oil
And wood pierced flesh with exploding.
I am a ruin
But not Failed yet
I am broken, but I
I am not yet dead….
So, against the walls I’ll go
(Into that biting horror)
Until my vigour is spent, and I
Can move no more.
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Necht Calgary, Alberta
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